Joel's Journeys & Jaunts

My primary destination this morning in Keszthely was Festetics Palace. But I stopped at a church along the way and took in a few museums,...

“Keszthely by the Lake” is not the name of the town I’m in. It’s just Keszthely. But it’s a town by a lake. Lake Balaton,...

If you read my first post from Győr, you might remember that I said that my guidebook mentioned a sight on the outskirts of Győr....

Here’s a hint for deciphering some of the titles I place on these journal entries. If I title one “Ark of the Covenant Statue,” it’s...

I left Sopron this morning, and I’m now in Győr, Hungary. Why Győr, you might ask? That’s a fair question. Like everywhere I’m visiting on...

I gave St. Michael’s Church sole billing in the title of this entry, but this afternoon included a hodgepodge of sights that I visited briefly...

This was going to be a bit of a Jewish Sopron morning. The guidebook I’m using has a long paragraph on Jewish Sopron. It claims...

This afternoon in Sopron, I visited Sopron’s Old Synagogue. The Old Synagogue falls under the umbrella of the Sopron Museum, the main buildings of which...

Sopron Museum and the Sopron Fire Tower are located side by side in Sopron’s captivating medieval inner town. The Sopron Museum is in a building,...

Please do not surmise from the title of this entry, “Shopping for Sopron,” dear reader, that after a lifetime of despising shopping, I’ve suddenly developed...